Category: thoughts

The danger of civilization, of course, is that you will piss away your life on nonsense.

Jim Harrison

I was tired of romanticism, [ . . . ] I wanted to present what I saw, pure and simple.

Robert Frank

In a way my work is documentary. But I am also a photographer who has a distinct style. My photographs are a companion to the reality of the situation.

Graciela Iturbide

Great photography is always on the edge of failure.

Garry Winogrand

The word ‘art’ is very slippery. It really has no importance in relation to one’s work. I work for the pleasure, for the pleasure of the work, and everything else is a matter for the critics.

Manuel Alvarez Bravo

I prefer my hesitations, my false paths, my stammering, to a preconceived idea.

Robert Doisneau

I am not interested in repetition. I don’t want to reach the point from where I wouldn’t know how to go further. It’s good to set limits for oneself, but there comes a moment when we must destroy what we have constructed.

Josef Koudelka